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...That a gorilla can lick a heavyweight prizefighter-even three prizefighters-was a pet theory of the late great Journalist Arthur Brisbane. Last week, onetime (1926-28) Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney focused attention on his sports editorship of the new Connecticut Nutmeg (TIME, May 30) by reviving the argument...
...gorilla is a sluggish thinker," Nutmegaphoned Editor Tunney. "He only knows one attack. He goes after something and grabs it with his hands and then hugs it to his breast, crushing the life out of it when possible...
...firm conviction that any fairly good heavyweight boxer could put the great Gargantua [460-lb. Congo-born gorilla now on tour with the Ringling circus] to sleep or to rout within two minutes...
Gargantua is a big boy but a Dempsey left hook landing on his stomach might figuratively tear the poor animal in two. . . . He didn't spend years doing bending and mat exercises. A man has 24 ribs. Your encyclopedia will tell you that a gorilla has but 13. Between the ribs, below the breastbone, there are nerve centres. If they are shocked the shock travels to the spine, temporarily causing paralysis. The ribs, and well developed muscles between the ribs, protect these nerve centres. Twenty-four ribs are much more protection than...
...would have been right in my element," said the African gorilla, regretting that he had been unable to get to the Lampoon's party. "Unfortunately I have never learned to swim," he lamcuted, "but a lot of my relatives were there...